Understanding Sleep and Dreaming

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moorcroft, William H. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edition:1st ed. 2005.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47949-4
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue A Visit to a Sleep and Dreams Lab
  • Prologue A Visit to a Sleep and Dreams Lab
  • Sleep and Sleeping
  • What is Sleep and How is it Scientifically Measured?
  • The Need to Sleep
  • Normal Variations of Sleep
  • What Causes us to Sleep?
  • The Brain in Sleep
  • The Body during Sleep
  • Dreams and Dreaming
  • Dreams
  • Dreaming
  • Theories of Dreams and Dreaming
  • Problems with Sleeping and Dreaming
  • Some Difficulties That People May Have with Sleep
  • Disorders of Sleep, Part I
  • Disorders of Sleep, Part II
  • Why We Sleep and Dream
  • Functions of Sleep and NREMS
  • Functions of REMS and Dreaming.